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were not important.”

Of course, he did say an occasional important thing, but that wild horses wouldn't drag put of me, because that was privileged. But if I remembered his speaking about her pretty hair and things of that sort, “Put it in,” said Taubman. “put it in!”

For a few things of that sort, he sent me up to wrights that up. “For Heaven's sake, tell about that.” Of course, it took no time to do it. It was just that I hadn't thought of that as being of any consequence.

There were a few other things of that sort that Taubman put me up to doing. And then, of course, the editors wanted some changes in order, and wanted certain sub-chapters much shorter. I resisted cutting down two or three of the chapters very much, because they were important, particularly the ones about legislative policy and the development of legislative practice. And I got Taubman in again to help me on that, when they wanted that done, because he could cut so much better than I could.

Of course I paid him a pretty penny, but it was well worth it. You bet it was worth it, because he really put it into an orderly book. That was that. That was the way it was written. The publishers were very nice. They liked the book very much from the beginning.





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